The System is not downhttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:27:05 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5Bleeding Edge!!http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=143
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=143#respondWed, 13 Dec 2017 17:26:13 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=143Continue reading →]]>So we are doing UI testing which requires the latest and greatest web broweser. Some have RPM other have binaries to install from. Both are fine however trying to use some sort of mgmt (Puppet, Ansible) and a tar.bz2 is near impossible.

/cut to compiling from source/

Compiled from source and with a custom %post to symlink it to /usr/local/bin I give you firefox 57 RPM.

It allows me to symlink so instead of users tyiping /firefox/firefox then can just type firefox.

Give me a few days and I can post the spec file if need be or the entire RPM (if that’s legal)

Now to streamline the process so I can do it with other major versions!!!

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1430PowerCLI on Linuxhttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=140
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=140#respondWed, 29 Nov 2017 21:15:49 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=140Continue reading →]]>So I finally got PowerCLI working on linux. I have it on a docker image running VMware Photon OS 1.0. This is pretty neat cause now I can:

3. Need to start my start up / shutdown script and parameter it; make life much much easier.

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1400AWX (Ansible Tower for Cheapos!!)http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=135
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=135#respondThu, 12 Oct 2017 14:07:23 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=135Continue reading →]]>So we are making the switch to Ansible tower and we do have a license. However if I can do it the old fashioned way (free) and learn more I am in.

AWX 1.0.1 here I am.

* Tower-manager is non existent; luckily they have tower-cli which is installed via pip install ansible-tower-cli which gives you these options

Using this I can probably replicate tower-manager all for free.

Keep an eye out for some custom scripts and one liners I write.
Here we go!!!

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1350WSUS and getting back to basicshttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=132
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=132#respondWed, 17 May 2017 14:05:15 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=132Continue reading →]]>So I completely ignored my WSUS server for the past 6 months; well ignore is a large word. It was on unattended mode. All updates got delivered but now I feel like I actually need to manage it along with AD. With all the ransomware going around it is not a bad idea.

I also decided to get a stack overflow account and answer some questions; maybe dig more into the why rather then it’s solved. I think it might help me career wise and my knowledge. I am worried the jack of all trades admin is going to go away in the next 5 – 10 years so I really need to work on my dev of the devops skill role.

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1320It’s been a whilehttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=129
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=129#respondTue, 02 May 2017 16:05:34 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=129SO I totally forgot about this blog; well time to update. Expect more contant updates; truly I mean it!

I just had to reset the password again via MYSQL; shows how much I use it

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1290Spacewalk!!http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=125
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=125#respondThu, 19 May 2016 20:08:21 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=125Continue reading →]]>Got my personal spacewalk server up and running. I am using it to deploy config files /etc/hosts to keep the dns in check. so far it is working on one system.

Eventually I hope to get it up and running on all.

This brings me back to a few interviews I did where they asked about configuration. Yeah spacewalk is not puppet or chef but is it not a bad way to keep config files in check.

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1250githubhttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=121
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=121#respondFri, 13 May 2016 19:13:10 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=121for those interested in my scripts and config files check out my github. I am going through most of the stuff I wrote and removing confidential info so it is a work in progress:

https://github.com/ephermal

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1210ELK with Vmwarehttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=115
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=115#respondFri, 13 May 2016 19:08:34 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=115Continue reading →]]>So the first thing to do is enable SSH on the vmware host (and do NTP if you haven’t already)

then get the configs of your esxi server run the below command and your output should be similar

esxcli system syslog config get

Then Set up the remote host with the following command and your output should be similar:

esxcli system syslog config set –loghost=’tcp://$HOSTNAME:$PORTNUMBER’

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=1150ELK Stack!!http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=110
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=110#respondThu, 12 May 2016 20:38:12 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=110ELK Stack working better and more fine tuning; tuned it for dhcp events and looks good. Now to deploy using cfengine and get more data and more!!!

Now it is working with vmware and my nagios server!!!

]]>http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?feed=rss2&p=11003D Printerhttp://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=105
http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=105#respondWed, 04 May 2016 19:52:54 +0000http://grayskull.jerrydman.com/?p=105Finally got around to setting up my 3d printer. I printed a frog, castle grayskull and working on building a new fantasy football trophy. This is so cool.